WMI Persistence - Command Line Event Consumer — Sigma Rule

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Author: Thomas Patzke. Source status: test; severity: high. Source dates: 2018-03-07 / 2021-11-27.

{
  "category": "image_load",
  "product": "windows"
}

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Source SHA-256: 357b643e0a22cb203bd66f10db309b71af806d97869412532d3268ef38e2c347

Detection logic

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title: WMI Persistence - Command Line Event Consumer
id: 05936ce2-ee05-4dae-9d03-9a391cf2d2c6
status: test
description: Detects WMI command line event consumers
references:
    - https://www.eideon.com/2018-03-02-THL03-WMIBackdoors/
author: Thomas Patzke
date: 2018-03-07
modified: 2021-11-27
tags:
    - attack.privilege-escalation
    - attack.t1546.003
    - attack.persistence
logsource:
    category: image_load
    product: windows
detection:
    selection:
        Image: 'C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe'
        ImageLoaded|endswith: '\wbemcons.dll'
    condition: selection
falsepositives:
    - Unknown (data set is too small; further testing needed)
level: high

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False positives

• Unknown (data set is too small; further testing needed)

Source references

• https://www.eideon.com/2018-03-02-THL03-WMIBackdoors/